MEDIUM6.5

PYSEC-2020-262

Quick fix

PYSEC-2020-262 — apache-airflow: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'apache-airflow>=1.10.13'

Details

In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.

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Affected packages

PyPI/apache-airflow

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.10.13

Fixpip install --upgrade 'apache-airflow>=1.10.13'

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8[ADVISORY]